Timeline of the Most Recent ChatGPT Updates
March 2025
- OpenAI faces privacy complaint in Europe for chatbot’s defamatory hallucinations: Noyb, a privacy rights advocacy group, is supporting an individual in Norway who was shocked to discover that ChatGPT was providing false information about him, stating that he had been found guilty of killing two of his children and trying to harm the third.
- OpenAI upgrades its transcription and voice-generating AI models: OpenAI has added new transcription and voice-generating AI models to its APIs, including a text-to-speech model, "gpt-4o-mini-tts," that delivers more nuanced and realistic sounding speech, as well as two speech-to-text models called "gpt-4o-transcribe" and "gpt-4o-mini-transcribe."
- OpenAI has launched o1-pro, a more powerful version of its o1: OpenAI has introduced o1-pro in its developer API, which uses more computing than its o1 "reasoning" AI model to deliver "consistently better responses." It’s only accessible to select developers who have spent at least $5 on OpenAI API services.
- OpenAI research lead Noam Brown thinks AI "reasoning" models could’ve arrived decades ago: Noam Brown, who heads AI reasoning research at OpenAI, thinks that certain types of AI models for "reasoning" could have been developed 20 years ago if researchers had understood the correct approach and algorithms.
- OpenAI says it has trained an AI that’s "really good" at creative writing: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X that the company has trained a "new model" that’s "really good" at creative writing. He posted a lengthy sample from the model given the prompt "Please write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief."
Other News
- OpenAI launches new tools to help businesses build AI agents: OpenAI has rolled out new tools designed to help developers and businesses build AI agents using the company’s own AI models and frameworks.
- ChatGPT has an app: Yes, there is a free ChatGPT mobile app for iOS and Android users.
- What is the ChatGPT character limit?: It’s not documented anywhere that ChatGPT has a character limit. However, users have noted that there are some character limitations after around 500 words.
- Does ChatGPT have an API?: Yes, it was released March 1, 2023.
- What are some sample everyday uses for ChatGPT?: Everyday examples include programming, scripts, email replies, listicles, blog ideas, summarization, etc.
- What are some advanced uses for ChatGPT?: Advanced use examples include debugging code, programming languages, scientific concepts, complex problem solving, etc.
- How good is ChatGPT at writing code?: It depends on the nature of the program. While ChatGPT can write workable Python code, it can’t necessarily program an entire app’s worth of code. That’s because ChatGPT lacks context awareness.
Controversies Surrounding ChatGPT
- Data privacy concerns: OpenAI has said that individuals in "certain jurisdictions" (such as the EU) can object to the processing of their personal information by its AI models by filling out this form.
- Lawsuits: Discord announced that it had integrated OpenAI’s technology into its bot named Clyde, where two users tricked Clyde into providing them with instructions for making the illegal drug methamphetamine (meth) and the incendiary mixture napalm. An Australian mayor has publicly announced he may sue OpenAI for defamation due to ChatGPT’s false claims that he had served time in prison for bribery. CNET found itself in the midst of controversy after Futurism reported the publication was publishing articles under a mysterious byline completely generated by AI.
- School bans: Several major school systems and colleges, including New York City Public Schools, have banned ChatGPT from their networks and devices, claiming that the AI impedes the learning process by promoting plagiarism and misinformation.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Where can I find examples of ChatGPT prompts? Several marketplaces host and provide ChatGPT prompts, either for free or for a nominal fee. One is PromptBase. Another is ChatX.
- Can ChatGPT be detected? Poorly. Several tools claim to detect ChatGPT-generated text, but in our tests, they’re inconsistent at best.
- Are ChatGPT chats public? No. But OpenAI recently disclosed a bug, since fixed, that exposed the titles of some users’ conversations to other people on the service.
- What lawsuits are there surrounding ChatGPT? None specifically targeting ChatGPT. But OpenAI is involved in at least one lawsuit that has implications for AI systems trained on publicly available data, which would touch on ChatGPT.
- Are there issues regarding plagiarism with ChatGPT? Yes. Text-generating AI models like ChatGPT have a tendency to regurgitate content from their training data.
